Empire of doom, p.17
EMPIRE OF DOOM, page 17
“This is the Spider speaking, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, the Spider, whom police hunt for murders, whom the Underworld wants to kill, because it fears his vengeful hand.
“I have just added another to my score of murders. I have killed Selden Crosswell, the Green Hand. You have heard his confession. Before I killed him, he had murdered the dictator, Jonathan Love and the woman through whom the Green Hand controlled Jonathan Love.
“The Spider pronounced judgment upon him, and the Spider killed him.”
He severed the last of his ropes, slid the chisel back into his tool kit and slipped over his face a black mask,
whose skirt dangled below his chin. Now only his eyes were visible, gray, and cold, with ironic laughter.
“This is the Spider signing off. Goodnight,” he said.
He reached above his head to the dangling light, unscrewed the bulb and used it to short circuit the wiring system of the building. He stooped over Crosswell a moment, then in darkness crossed the room; in darkness threw open the door. .
Moments later, police and a frenzied group of acclaiming men and women dashed up the stairs into the black hallway. Police dashed into the room. Their flashlights blazed. They found the bodies of Love and Olga Bantsoff, and Selden Crosswell— found on Crosswell's forehead, a blood-red, hairy-legged spot that was the seal of the Spider!
They found Delaney slowly regaining consciousness. Renee Love dropped to her knees beside him, took his battered head in her lap bent her lovely, generous mouth to his.
Police, searching the room, searching the theater, dug into every nook and cranny of the building. They found the hidden radio equipment and the secret microphone. But they did not find Richard Wentworth.
The Spider had vanished!
THE END
Unknown Author, EMPIRE OF DOOM
